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(Collins, John, 1625-1683)

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Collins, John, 1625-1683: Commercium epistolicum J. Collins et aliorum de analysi promota, etc., ou Correspondance de J. Collins et d'autres savants célèbres du XVIIe siècle, relative à l'analyse supérieure, réimprimée sur l'édition de 1712 avec l'indication des variants de l'édition de 1722, complétée par une collection des pièces justificatives et de documents (Mallet-Bachelier, 1856), also by Jean Baptiste Biot, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, and Pierre Alexandre Francisque Lefort (page images at HathiTrust)
Collins, John, 1625-1683: Commercium epistolicum J. Collins et aliorum de analysi promota, etc. : ou, Correspondance de J. Collins et d'autres savants célèbres du XVIIe siècle, relative à l'analyse supérieure, réimprimée sur l'édition originale de 1712 avec l'indication des variantes de l'édition de 1722, complétée par une collection de pièces justificatives et de documents, et publiée par J.-B. Bbiot et F. Lefort. (Mallet-Bachelier, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
Collins, John, 1625-1683: Consuetudo; vel, Lex mercatoria; or, the ancient law-merchant, in three parts, according to the essentials of traffick ... whereunto are annexed the following tracts, viz. I. The collection of sea laws. II. Advice concerning bills of exchange, by John Marius ... III. The merchants mirrour; or, Directions for the perfect ordering or keeping of his accounts ... by R. Dafforne ... IV. An introduction to merchants accounts, by John Collins ... V. The accountants closet, being an abridgment of merchants accounts, kept by debtor and creditor, by Abraham Liset. (Basset, 1686), also by Gerard Malynes, Abraham Liset, Richard Dafforne, John Marius, and John Borough (page images at HathiTrust)
Collins, John, 1625-1683: The country-survey-book: or Land-meters vade-mecum Wherein the principles and practical rules for surveying of land, are so plainly (though briefly) delivered, that any one of ordinary parts (understanding how to add, substract, multiply and divide,) may by the help of this small treatise alone and a few cheap instruments easy to be procured, measure a parcel of land, and with judgment and expedition plot it, and give up the content thereof. With an appendix, containing twelve problems touching compound interest and annuities; and a method to contract the work of fellowship and alligation alternate, very considerably in many cases. Illustrated with copper plates. By Adam Martindale, a friend to mathematical learning. (London : printed for R. Clavel, at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church-yard, and T. Sawbridge, at the Three Flower-de-luces in Little-Britain, 1692), also by Adam Martindale (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Collins, John, 1625-1683: A curious collection of law-books, ancient and modern, consisting of the libraries of John Collins, Esq. ... and of another fam'd practicer of the law with additions of the best and latest law-books hitherto extant : as also an appendix of a considerable number of books of the civil & canon-law : will be exposed to sale by way of auction, on Munday the 2d day of July, 1683, at the first house on the left-hand in Flying-Horse Court in Fleetstreet, near the Kings-Head Tavern at Chancery Lane end, by Edward Millington, bookseller. ([London? : s.n.], 1683), also by Edward Millington (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Collins, John, 1625-1683: The doctrine decimal arithmetick, simple interest, &c. as also of compound interest and annuities generally performed for any time of payment or rate of interest by help of a particular table of forbearance of 1l principal, with enlarged rules, formerly abridged for portability in a letter case / by John Collins ; and since his death, both made publick by J.D. (London : Printed by R. Holt for Nath. Ponder, 1685) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Collins, John, 1625-1683: Geometrical dyalling, or, Dyalling performed by a line of chords onely, or by the plain scale wherein is contained two several methods of inscribing the hour-lines in all plains, with the substile, stile and meridian, in their proper coasts and quantities : being a full explication and demonstration of divers difficulties in the works of learned Mr. Samuel Foster deceased ... : whereto is added four new methods of calculation, for finding the requisites in all leaning plains ... : also how by projecting the sphere, to measure off all the arks found by calculation ... : lastly, the making of dyals from three shadows of a gnomon ... / written by John Collins ... (London : Printed by Thomas Johnson for Francis Cossines and are to be sold at his shop ... :, also to be sold by Henry Sutton ..., 1659) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Collins, John, 1625-1683: Navigation by the mariners plain scale new plain'd: or, A treatise of geometrical and arithmetical navigation; wherein sayling is performed in all the three kindes by a right line, and a circle divided into equal parts. Containing 1. New ways of keeping of a reckoning, or platting of a traverse, both upon the plain and mercators chart ... 2. New rules for estimating the ships way through currents, and for correcting the dead reckoning. 3. The refutation of divers errors, and of the plain chart, and how to remove the error committed thereby ... as also a table thereof made to every other centesm. 4. A new easie method of calculation for great circle-sayling, with new projections, schemes and charts ... 5. Arithmetical navigation, or navigation performed by the pen, if tables were wanting ... By John Collins of London, Pen-man, accomptant, philomathet. (London : printed by Tho. Johnson for Francis Cossinet, and are to be sold at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower-street, as also by Henry Sutton mathematical instrument-maker in Thread needle street, behinde the Exchange, 1659) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Collins, John, 1625-1683: A plea for the bringing in of Irish cattel, and keeping out of fish caught by foreigners together with an humble address to the honourable members of Parliament of the countries of Cornwal and Devon, about the advancement of tin, fishery, and divers manufactures / by John Collins. (London : Printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford, 1680) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Collins, John, 1625-1683: Salt and fishery (Printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford, and are to be sold by Mr. Robert Horne at the Royal Exchange, in St. Pauls Church-yard, Mr. William Bury, Globe-maker ..., 1682) (page images at HathiTrust)
Collins, John, 1625-1683: The sector on a quadrant, or A treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular. Each of them accomodated for dyalling; for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally; and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe. Of great use to seamen and practitioners in the mathematicks. Written by John Collins accountant philomath. Also An appendix touching reflected dyalling from a glass placed at any reclination. (London : printed by J.M. for George Hurlock at Magnus Corner, Thomas Pierrepont, at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard; William Fisher, at the Postern near Tower-Hill, book-sellers; and Henry Sutton, mathematical instrument-maker, at his house in Thred-needle street, behind the Exchange. With paper prints of each quadrant, either loose or pasted upon boards; to be sold at the respective places aforesaid, 1659), also by John Lyon and Henry Sutton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Collins, John, 1625-1683: To the reader ([London : s.n., 1675]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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